wth is with "hockey" and "tennis" etc themed mmos, I can't for the life of me see how that would EVER have an audience.

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When it comes to sitting around not doing anything for long periods of time, only being active for short windows, and marginal changes and sidegrades I'd say FFXI players were the perfect choice for politicians.

Because the majority of them never took off. You only hear about the MMOs that are actually popular enough for some people to play.

I know that Fantasy Earth: Zero was originally Fantasy Earth: The Ring of Dominion, Square Enix's second MMORPG attempt after FFXI. It did poorly and was picked up by another publisher less than a year after it was released.

I know that Fantasy Earth: Zero was originally Fantasy Earth: The Ring of Dominion, Square Enix's second MMORPG attempt after FFXI. It did poorly and was picked up by another publisher less than a year after it was released.

I didn't even know it was released in the US. I would have tired it out had I known. :( It looks like it's still online in Japan, but if I'm IP blocked, then I guess it's dead to me. :(

Both games were dropped by their original companies,picked up by another and turned into a free-to-play game.

I know that Fantasy Earth: Zero was originally Fantasy Earth: The Ring of Dominion, Square Enix's second MMORPG attempt after FFXI. It did poorly and was picked up by another publisher less than a year after it was released.

I didn't even know it was released in the US. I would have tired it out had I known. :( It looks like it's still online in Japan, but if I'm IP blocked, then I guess it's dead to me. :(

Both games were dropped by their original companies,picked up by another and turned into a free-to-play game.

I played Fantasy Earth Zero. For exactly 10 minutes, then uninstalled. FYI: It was picked up by Gamepot USA.

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DAoC City of heros is still around, espicaily I you counter in all the expansion's they added.

AFAIK, Dark Age of Camelot is still around. Tiny population (last I heard 5k- 8k, which is just a bit under the last figure I saw for FFXIV) but still around. EverQuest, Ultima Online are still around. Heck, The Realm Online is apparently still around and it appears Meridian 59 is too.

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City of heroes is being shut down cause it was using up resources needed for new games ncsoft were releasing I read. It was making enough money to carry on but they needed the resources,m sometimes its bad to play a game run by a company that runs so many mmo.

...draining with sambas is kind of like you smack the thing and as you smack blood flies out... normally the blood would just you know fall and be red an what-not, but, with the samba your all whacked out and decide to drink the blood as it flys out. thus not adding MORE damage just taking more advantage of your damage. at least thats my take on it.

And then there are the countless F2P games that no one ever got to hear of, much less got enough notice that people remembered them when they pulled the server plug.

I probably should have been more specific.

If I wanted to make a list, it would be either:

1. Pay-to-play games that have shut down completely (SWG, The Matrix Online, etc) 2. Pay-to-play games that flopped and changed models, going Free-to-play or whatever (LotRO, DDO), probably marked with an asterisk in the list

Notice that FFXIV wouldn't technically be on the list, even in the second category.

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